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The Emergency Room Psychiatry Shortage: How Amwell Can Help

Solving for the Shortage: Amwell Psychiatric Care offers telepsychiatry services where and when you need them through a national telehealth medical group.

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Roughly 60% of counties in the United States lack a single psychiatrist. This lack of access oftentimes means patients end up at the emergency department (ED) for acute psychiatric care. But EDs are experiencing a similar shortage. So how do we solve for this? Amwell can help.